COIMBATORE: A fire broke out in a medicines godown at Singanallur in Coimbatore in the early hours of Monday. Medicines and hand sanitizers worth Rs 4 crore were gutted, the Singanallur police said quoting godown incharge Dhamodaran.
The godown is situated at Balaji Nagar. Medicines stocked in the godown were supplied to Coimbatore, Erode and the Nilgiris districts.
Around 3.30am on Monday, a security guard noticed smoke coming out of the godown. He immediately informed the godown incharge who alerted the fire and rescue services department.
Three fire tenders from Coimbatore South and one fire tender each from Peelamedu, Sulur and Ganapathy rushed to the spot and put out the fire around 10.30 am.
The cause of the fire was yet to be ascertained, police said.